Garden Route Travel Guide

HOME Brochure Downloads SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town Metro Eastern Cape Free State Garden Route Gauteng Kruger Park Kwazulu Natal Limpopo Mpumalanga North West Northern Cape Western Cape AFRICA Botswana Kenya Malawi Mozambique Namibia Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Advertising	To many who have visited it, the Garden Route has a mysterious allure. In a province dominated by a Mediterranean climate and vegetation, the sheer extravagance of its tropical forests, brilliantly hued birds, multitudinous exotic plant species, tranquil inland lakes, densley wooded mountains, pristine beaches and meandering, reed-banked rivers is overwhelming. Stretching along the Southern Cape coast from Heidelberg in the west to the Tsitsikamma Forest and Storms River in the east, the region's entrance to the interior is barred by towering mountains breached by passes and gorge stirring archetypal images of Amazonian jungles. More, the silence evoked by its ever-changing landscape carries on its still, fragrant, sea-scented air a sense of the spiritual. With so much of the Garden Route's beauty unspoilt, visitors feel they have been set free to play in God's backyard. A well-developed tourist infrastructure has strung the region's towns along its coast like a string of pearl's. In all of them, artists, writers, naturalists and nature lovers coexist with those devoting their time and energies to catering to the whims and special fancies of the area's year-round visitors. Replete with legends of hillbillies, the seldom seen Knysna elephants, soft mornings drifting in on the music of a woodcutter's axe, the early sun kissing the face of a perfect wave peeling off cosy Victoria Bay's secluded point, the entirely appropriate eccentricity of Noetzie's beach-bound castles and Belvidere's Norman Church, the Garden Route is a romantic paradise. Visiting the worked-out, overgrown goldmines of Millwood, where prospectors indulged in a 19th century fortune-seeking frenzy, the graves of early pioneers seem forever fresh. It seems proper in an area that steals most visitor's hearts.	click to view map TOWNS Albertinia George Great Brak River Hartenbos Heidelberg Herolds Bay Knysna Mossel Bay Plettenberg Bay Riversdale Sedgefield Stilbaai Tsitsikamma Wilderness RESERVES & PARKS Knysna National Lakes Area Tsitsikamma NP Wilderness NP
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